Access to Scotland's major urban railway stations

The Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee has carried out a short piece of work into access to Scotland’s major urban railway stations in order to identify issues and understand how access could be improved.

The Committee aimed to identify if there are shared issues being experienced by passengers up and down the country, including how easy it is for pedestrians, cyclists and disabled people to access and move within these stations. The Committee also wished to understand how access to other modes of public transport and taxis from stations might be improved to help people to carry on their journey.

Following this work, the Committee wrote to Phil Verster, Managing Director of the ScotRail Alliance, summarising the Committee’s findings:

Surveys

Surveys to gather the views of rail passengers on access to, and within, nine major Scottish urban railway stations ran from 20 April 2015 to 8 May 2015. A total of 4875 responses were received, which can be broken down as follows:

The second evidence session was held on 3 June 2015 and the Committee heard from representatives of the Confederation of Passenger Transport Scotland, Cycling Scotland, Scottish Taxi Federation and Sustrans Scotland.